ABOARD THE USS BATAAN—What if they staged a basketball game, and an ice skating exhibition broke out?

It would be called the Navy/Marine Corps Classic, and what a classic it was. Florida beat Georgetown 27-23 Friday night aboard the USS Bataan in a game that wound up not counting.

If that score seems a bit low, consider it an homage to the I.Q. of whoever thought basketball, the outdoors and nighttime can mix. The game was called at halftime, which was actually a victory of sorts.

Friday’s game on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C., between Ohio State and Marquette was canceled before it even started due to condensation on the court. The game between Syracuse and San Diego State on the USS Midway in San Diego was postponed earlier in the week until Sunday due to stormy weather.

Talk about a memorable opening night for the college basketball. Mother Nature defeated Florida, Georgetown, Ohio State, Marquette, San Diego State and Syracuse.

Not by normal USS Bataan standards. I mean, there was no chance an Iranian ship was going to fire on the Hoyas. There was an excellent chance a player was going to do an impression of Michelle Kwan, only they’d blow out a knee in the process.

It takes a lot of preparation to stage nationally televised basketball games on aircraft carriers. In all those man-hours, nobody apparently mentioned the word “condensation.”

“It’s a real shame,” said Stan Van Gundy, who was calling the game for NBC Sports Network.

Really, would it have been that hard to factor in what happens at night? Falling temperatures increase moisture in the air.

That’s all right if you’re playing on cement courts at the local playground. It’s dicey if you’re playing on varnished wood atop the local aircraft carrier.

That was overlooked in the marketing stampede that “opening night” has become. It started last year, when North Carolina and Michigan State played on the USS Carl Vinson, also in San Diego.

It seemed like a nice novelty. Then viewers got a look at the grand panorama. President Obama showed up in a bomber jacket. It turned into ESPN’s highest-rated regular season game in five years.

That inevitably meant there would be more. I’m all for any event that recognizes our soldiers and sailors. But Friday’s triple washout is a warning sign that we’re already approaching too much of a good thing.

This year, there were three games on ships and one at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. If everything had gone as smoothly as last year’s original aircraft game, next year would have had six games on ships, five on bases and one on a court suspended beneath a Chinook helicopter.

The one outside Jacksonville on Friday was billed the Navy/Marine Corps Classic. Not to be confused with the Midway Classic or Carrier Classic or Armed Forces Classic. Much less the 2K Sports Classic or Barclays Center Classic, two other opening night games played without the military backdrop. Opening night is starting to sound like the college bowl season. The bad part is it will quickly start feeling like it.

In a few years, every team in America will be playing in some self-anointed classic. Jacksonville marketed Friday’s game as part of a promotional package.

For $1,000 (or up to $5,000 in some deals) fans got the aircraft game, Thursday night’s Jaguars-Colts game, a pregame concert and a halftime fireworks show.

“There were so many great memories made,” said Alan Verlander, the city’s entertainment and sports director.

It’s his job to spin the positive, but Verlander was right. Everybody seemed to be having a good time aboard the Bataan. At least until the laws of nature set in. Then it was all hands on deck. I counted 19 people swabbing the deck at halftime. The group included managers, volunteers, players and referees. A little more condensation and Florida Gov. Rick Scott might have had to join them.

“It’s crazy,” Florida’s Patric Young said.

After 15 minutes of swabbing, the announcement was made.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the game has been called.”

It was strike three for Friday’s aircraft carrier games.

“We’ll go back to the drawing board,” Verlander said, “and figure out how to do it better.”

A good start would be consulting a meteorologist. Nobody wants to start the season in the Banana Peel Classic.